1. The Village-(The best film score EVER!) The sound and sound editing is one of the best I'vew ever heard. It's hypnotic.2. Lady in The Water-(Soft and intangible, but great.)3. Signs (Has a nice Hitchcock feel to it at the biginning of the film.)4. The Happening-(JNH most creppiest score)5. Unbreakable-(Daunting and nice layers to it.)6. The Sixth Since-(This is my least favorite JNH score.)

Lady In the Water --- Just... I dunno. It used to be one of those "Yeah, I know the opening and that's about it" scores for me, then I listened to the whole thing through. By far in my Top 5 Scores list. Absolutely beautiful in every respect. Every respect.

The Village --- Beautiful violin work; a downright shame it didn't win for Best Score that year. Far better than "Finding Neverland" (though that was also pretty good). What's ironic is I don't even own the score or have it downloaded in any form. I'm thinking about getting the complete score promo soon.

Unbreakable --- Intriguing. Very intriguing. Just above "Signs". One of the best "hero" themes I've heard from a film of this genre.

Signs --- This would be above "Unbreakable" on my list if the other cues were a little more than they are. The opening and closing music is fantastic, but everything else just isn't that interesting to me on its own. Nevertheless, very captivating when it gets loud.

The Sixth Sense --- Never really noticed the themes and cues until about a year ago. Nice, but not (IMO) worthy of buying the soundtrack for. Perfect for the film, not the ears alone, except when the soft themes are played.

The Happening --- Right now, this is on the bottom of my list since I never really payed much attention to the score when I watched the movie. I've only seen it once, and I usually listen carefully to the score of any film at first viewing (I'm a soundtrack collector), but with this I was just trying to see what made the movie "so bad" to others. It really wasn't that bad. It certainly wasn't my favorite Shyamalan film, but it kept me entertained, at least, and that's a movie's primary purpose. Next time I see it I'll be listening more closely.

1. Unbreakable: I can listen to this album the whole way through, something I don't really do with the other MNS/JNH scores. I still can't listen to "The Orange Man" or "Reflections of Elijah" without getting chills.

2. The Village: Come on, who doesn't like this?

3. Lady in the Water: Very diverse and epic songs (Prologue, The Great Eatlon, and End Titles come to mind especially)

4. The Happening: Eerie stuff, like what you'd hear in an old school Horror movie. "Be With You" is the song with the highest Play Count on my iPod.

5. The Last Airbender: The sItuff's pretty good, sounds pretty Lady in the Water-like in some songs. It's #5 due mostly to me not listening to it much yet. "Flow Like Water" is the best song on the album, and one of the best songs in the MNS-JNH catalog.

6. Signs: No offense, but a lot of the songs sound the same.

7. The 6th Sense: "Running to the Church" is the only one I really listen to.

What about Howard's non Night Soundtracks? He does so many...Blood Diamond, Treasure Planet, Atlantis...he did the live action Peter Pan didn't he? The guy's amazing. If I ever write a book and they make it into a movie he HAS to do the music, and of course, Night has to direct! lol I doubt anything I write would ever be made into a movie though.

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What about Howard's non Night Soundtracks? He does so many...Blood Diamond, Treasure Planet, Atlantis...he did the live action Peter Pan didn't he? The guy's amazing. If I ever write a book and they make it into a movie he HAS to do the music, and of course, Night has to direct! lol I doubt anything I write would ever be made into a movie though.

He's my fav. composer. Among my favorite scores of his (non-Night) are "King Kong", "Peter Pan" (you mentioned), and "The Postman". He even composed the themes for movies when other composers scored the rest of the film, like the theme for "Dante's Peak" and "Liar Liar". Really loved his work on the Nolan Batman films alongside Zimmer, though. He's really one of the greats.